Edited by Steven L. McKenzie

Over 100 entries

This work fills a crucial need in the field of biblical studies by providing detailed, comprehensive treatments of the latest approaches to, and methods for, interpretation of the Bible. Entries are written by expert practitioners and collectively provide a single source for authoritative reference overviews of the scholarship on some of the most important topics in the field of biblical studies. As with all high quality reference works, the Encyclopedia provides a solid foundation that students and scholars can use to orientate themselves before venturing into original research.

The Encyclopedia contains entries ranging in length from 3,000 to 5,000 words. Each entry is signed by the author, contains a bibliography for further reading, and is cross-referenced to other useful points of interest within the Encyclopedia. The Encyclopedia also features a topical outline of contents.

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

Print Publication Date:

2013

Print ISBN-13:

9780199832262

Published online:

2014

Current Online Version:

2014

DOI:

10.1093/acref:obso/9780199832262.001.0001

eISBN:

9780199832279

Author

Steven L. McKenzie,editor

Editor in Chief Steven L. McKenzie is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at Rhodes College. He is the author of a number of books and articles dealing with biblical interpretation including the Oxford University Press titles King David: A Biography (2000) and How to Read the Bible (2005), as well as All God's Children: A Biblical Critique of Racism (Westminster John Knox, 1997), Covenant (Chalice, 2000), and Introduction to the Historical Books (Eerdmans, 2010). He wrote the notes for 1-2 Samuel in The New Oxford Annotated Bible (3rd and 4th eds.) and for 1-2 Samuel and 1-2 Kings in The Access Bible (Oxford University Press, 2011). He has served on the editorial boards of Catholic Biblical Quarterly and Journal of Biblical Literature and is currently associate editor of Vetus Testamentum.

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